Favreau has a tight-knit relationship with the Iron Man trilogy, serving as the director for the first two movies and the executive producer behind all three of them. He is also the actor who plays Happy Hogan, Tony Stark’s beloved driver and bodyguard. Beyond that, Favreau has a well-established career as an actor, director, and screenwriter. He directed the Christmas movie Elf and the remakes of the fantasy movies The Jungle Book and The Lion King. Favreau has used all of his assorted skills to enrich various Disney and Marvel series. Most recently, creating the acclaimed series The Mandalorian, finding himself in new demand to continue to make Star Wars-related works. However, Armor Wars should be the next series that claims his attention.
Throughout the MCU, it is clear that James Rhodes has close ties with the people in Tony Stark’s lives. In the character’s recurring appearances, he also shared a friendship with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). In Favreau’s later projects, he has continued to work with the actors that were featured in Iron Man movies, casting them to make short cameos and appearances. In his’s movie Chef (2014), Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson were both cast as supporting characters. Then later in 2019, Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in Favreau’s cooking show The Chef Show — where she made her now-infamous “Spider-Man? We weren’t in Spider-Man” comment.
The want to involve past Iron Man characters and actors in Armor Wars goes beyond novelty. It would simply feel rather ingenious to remove James Rhodes from his origin story. While involving Favreau wouldn’t guarantee cameos from other actors, it would make it more likely for Happy Hogan to pop into the story. Strangely enough, despite Happy and James being both of Tony Stark’s closest friends, they have never interacted (so far) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Is there any better way to honor and protect Iron Man’s legacy than getting his two biggest supporters involved? Additionally, both of these characters have a close relationship to the armor itself, with James being present as it was being created and Happy spending his career hauling around the tech— both in Iron Man and Spider-Man movies.
Dreaming of this collaboration is not entirely out-of-the-question. Despite Favreau’s last Marvel directorial project being over ten years old with Iron Man 2, he served as the executive producer on all of the Avengers movies (from the self-titled flick all the way to Endgame). He has also continuously reprised his role as Happy Hogan. Two years ago, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Favreau said that the opportunity Marvel gave him back in 2008 when he made the first Iron Man movie changed his life and he still feels as though he is “part of the family.” He shared, “Although I’m not sitting on the set in a director’s chair, I’m either acting in another movie [as Tony Stark’s chauffeur, Happy Hogan], or sitting in a screening and talking to them about my thoughts, or having phone calls with new directors.”
Armor Wars would be the perfect project to welcome Jon Favreau back to the Marvel director chair. Not only would it appease fans and invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia to the Phase Four, but he is also credited for setting the Marvel Cinematic Universe into motion with his work in bringing the Iron Man story to life. This hire would instantly guarantee James Rhodes’ first titular role to be a major success.
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